Another Sorry Chapter in the Cable Fable
When doorstepped this morning, Vince Cable ruled out resigning saying: ”I’m just getting on with my job as I always do.” So he limps on to fight, and lose, another day, but that’s not to say he hasn’t been banging his steel mug against the bars of his cell this weekend. With Clegg initially saying he was behind the national interest, Cable’s voice on the outside, also known as the spectacularly irritating Matthew Oakeshott, was deployed to stir things up.
The Observer reported: “One of Vince Cable’s closest allies, Lord Oakeshott, has refused to rule out a possible resignation by the business secretary. Cable’s comrade Will Hutton had clearly had a direct earful too: “He will speak out aggressively against Cameron’s veto; his decision is whether to resign to do so or say so in office, courting his sacking.” Will Hutton being wrong about something comes as no surprise, but him making something up would. Yet again Cable has clearly threatened that often cited nuclear bomb, yet failed to push the button. When push comes to shove, he’s yellow to his core…
Like Brown, he is a bottler.
Vince is so vain, he probably thinks the coalition is about him.
No, it’s about me. Look, I’m big and important, got it ?
What a wonderful pair they make.
Oakshit is the most unpopular man in the city who collects impressive fund management fees from property speculation and rent hikes on behalf of charities.
Vince is a serial complainer and minister without solution and soon without portfolio.
Democracy in action at its best – Westminster’s favourite village idiot and his unelected gouging absent landLORD mate carping from the sidelines
push the button an destroy the coalition it would then become an Eu in/out general election. Then let us see the Lib Dems spectacularly lose again. Ashdown called Tory rebels “bastards” and Clegg thinks we are “pygmies”. Clegg keeps insulting the British public and culture and then expects us to vote for him and his pan European state dream led by his native Germany.
How many more times do the Lie Dems have to act contrary to the public’s wishes, insult them and then ask for their votes?
Before the election Lie Dumbs wanted and in/out Eu referendum claiming it was better than the Tory one offered. In office Clegg drew a three line whip to prevent the British public from having a referendum, he then called us pygmies for not sharing his fanatical EU German led dream. He claimed unequivocally that he would stop and abolish university tuition fees, he did the opposite and trebled the fees. He wanted AV against the public’s wishes, only 58 Lie Dumb MPs wanted it. He got thrashed at the local elections. Lie Dumbs spectacularly lost at the last election on policy issues of budget, EU, immigration, defence, crime and disorder. he might want to stop and think that to be elected he needs to demonstrate the party offers something the public wants- at this time they do not want the LIE DUMBS. A bit of clue Clegg.
Does Vince actually believe that his leaving would be of nuclear button pushing proportions?
The sage of twickers is obviously getting more delusional by the day if he thinks anyone outside of his (least popular in the country) party gives half a shit.
Don’t forget, underneath that yellow is a deep shade of red.
Oakeshott is exceedingly rich.
As I said, a typical red.
Is he any relation to the Times hack, Isabel Oakeshott?
Just’d like to know what prism I should view her witterings on the EU through.
And like the rest of the clan, formally Liebour.
If he’s not happy with things he could do a Dick Whittington and FCUK off the the EU and try to get a job there with the rest f the pantomime cast of thousands
EU Voting Song after the veto
EU Voting Song
Jolly voting weather
We are all europhiles
We’re very clever
And lie to you all the while
You fell for our promise especially the CAST IRON trick
We’re all from Eton, and you lot are all too thick.
If you think I’ll claim back powers,
You haven’t got a clue
We’ll hand the UK to Merkle,
There is nothing that you can do
No referendums Changes through on the nod
I am the PM and I’m a duplicitous sod
As for immigration
I know it gets on your tits
I will flood the nation
And pay their benefits
I am from Eton; I am one of the ruling class
If you don’t like it, you can just kiss my ****
If I agreed the Treaty
Things that it would amend
Required referendums
And that would be the end
We’d be out of Europe and that’s what the public crave
But I’m undemocratic, just call me dictator Dave
Clegg is making noises
Pretending he did not know
If he really meant it
Lib-Dems would pack up and go
There all in it together, and David is now all smiles
He has silenced the sceptics, with the aid of the Europhiles
This has been a carve up
Helped by Merkosy
They need our money
That is quite plane to see
They played out the charade so it looks as if Dave’s alone
But were still in the EU and we’ll pay for the Eurozone
Jolly voting weather
We are all Europhiles
We’ve silenced the sceptics
Look at their beaming smiles
There’s no referendum, the sceptics are really thick
I am from Eton and those idiots missed the trick
‘getting on with the job’ was Brown’s favourite phrase when he was wrecking the economy and now poor old Vince has gone from boom to bust.
‘doing the right thing’. That was another for shutting down all debate.
and ‘in the next period of time’ = never.
‘Learning the lessons, drawing a line under it, getting on with the job and moving on’.
‘over the cycle’ = I get to define the ‘cycle’.
‘I will never do [X]‘ = I’m doing it right now.
Some putz on R4 just now telling us that Brown will get a better write up in the future when people realsie what a good lad he was. FFS this after listening to the delusional liberal fuckwit Jenny Tong on R2. I now have a badly boiling bladder. This country is over run with morons.
Brown has already had a good write-up considering the utter economic clusterfuck he bequeathed the UK. It’s downhill from here as it dawns on more and more folk who it was who sat there through all the idiocy, borrowing and squandering our future and desperately trying to hide his pyramid of fuck-ups with more borrowed cash.
OK – I as some may recognise detest Brown with a passion, but I freely admit he was the one man in that crazy liebor party that made sure we would not join the Eurozone. For that he deserves some props but that is about the only thing he did get right! My guess right now though is with hindsight he might consider he did the wrong thing as the Eurozone crisis coupled with Merkosy’s need to get a broader more fiscal and political union will ultimate be the downfall of the EU. Thank god.
Time to sack the pointless little twat…
Odd bloke – time to go Vince.
Fuck off into retirement and take you dirty grey ears with you, you freak.
That really is a sophisticated poltical/economic argument….Not!
Some people are interested in the BIG issues, chum…
If the guy can’t even keep his own ears under control and clean, what hope has he of sorting the economy? Hmm…??
Fuck all, that’s what…
He claimed to be the sage Vincent Cable
But was actually senile & unstable
The doddery fool
Was a useless tool
Proving in cabinet to be distinctly unable
Vince Cable has threatened to go
It’s not the first time he’s done so
Then he looks what he’ll get
If he makes good his threat
And when asked to confirm he says ‘No’.
There was an old duffer called Cable
Who regularly walked from the table
He always came back
Renewed his attack
His competence now just a fable
Are you lot from Limerick or is it something in the water?
Say it like it is, he’s a spineless Twat.
Ming is bactracking on behalf of clegg on Daily Politics now. Basically asying that Clegg went off half cocked before having the full facts
Ming went on the telly on Friday morning and fully backed Cameron. I saw him, I heard him and I was surprised but that is what he did and so did Clegg.
Ming is a fucking treacherous arsehole. WTF is he allowed to spoute such chite on TV.
The sooner the k unt has a stroke the fking better.
Expect a pile of concessions to be thrown at the Lib Dems as a consolation. Dave didn’t veto for the interests of Britain he did it for his City handlers. Give it time and it’ll be seen as the pyrrhic victory it undoubtedly is.
When invited to tango Vince gets the foxtrots.
Honestly believed your headline about quitting meant he was giving up cigarettes.
Sane minds apart, [of which there are very few on the Liberal bench] hanging onto coat-tails and bluster is all they have left to feel they are making a difference.
Simple maths innit.
Backbench MP = 65K per year.
Cabinet MP = 130K per year.
He’s as principled as his next paycheck.
He’s effectively getting ten years pay and pension contributions for five years work. Plus he gets a c*a*r to be driven about in.
And, bearing in mind there’ll be no end of LibDem MPs ready to step right up to fill the vacancy he figures he might as well take the cash as some other chancy wanker. So he does have some basic economic understanding insofar as it relates to his own personal wealth.
As twats go, Vince rates pretty highly.
It’s all about power and money. Vince doesn’t want to give up the tooled leather sandals, the tofu and smoked salmon blinis. All the trappings of power that the left so despise.
Absolutely. A liberal MP will never get this chance of power again in our lifetime. It would take a a fool or a man of principle to throw away the opportunity and Vince is neither.
When the LibDems are wiped out electorally at the 2015 Election(or before if they actually grow some in the interim) Vince will be able to retire to a nice sinecure in the House of Lords as Lord Cable of Twickenham no doubt and elder Statesman of his party along side Paddy and “Ming”
Don’t think all those used to be LibDem voters will vote Cons, also IF the
U Kippers gain votes they will not come from LibDems but from the Cons especially the right of the Cons, maybe to avert defections, Cammers might might try to arrange an alliance. Interesting times are in the offing.
All Cameron has to do NOW is state huge differences in the coalition over this matter and then say the GE represents the referendum, we will get you if we win the other two will not. Result landslide win for the tories. Or is that to simplistic!
sorry left the important word OUT out..
Simple maths innit.
Backbench MP = 65K per year.
Cabinet MP = 130K per year.
He’s as principled as his next paycheck.
He’s effectively getting ten years pay and pension contributions for five years work. Plus he gets a c*a*r to be d*r*i*v*e*n about in.
And, bearing in mind there’ll be no end of LibDem MPs ready to step right up to fill the vacancy he figures he might as well take the cash as some other chancy wanker. So he does have some basic economic understanding insofar as it relates to his own personal wealth.
Oh dear. Can’t we say car now?
I’m suspicious of all m*o*t*o*r v*e*h*i*c*l*e related words hereabouts. Very touchy a*u*t*oMod.
auto mod my a r s e, full blown Stasi machine…
Since it is abundantly clear that none of the Fibdems will resign, Dave is now free to ignore them and push ahead with a proper Tory agenda and get the country back on its feet.
Auto botty does not like *B*o*o*z*e* + *c*a*r* + *d*r*i*v*i*n*g* a little bit of a sensitive subject
Vince Cable faces a difficult dilemma, if he resigns he faces a drop in salary and proportional loss of troughing rights. He must balance that against his supposed integrity, cash vs integrity. Mmmm!, watch this space.
In the picture is Vince Cable sucking on a lemon?
No, he always looks like that,. Other suggestions, he’s swallowed a wasp or got shit on his nose.
Givin his imaginary friend a blow job?
Seems like Cable has transformed from Mr Bean to Mr Bean.
Err still Mr Bean no change then
The man’s a dithering moron, unloved and hated.
He’s piqued, as his seat at Twickenham will merge with Richmond Park which means that he will be ousted. The next nearest Heston and Isleworth doesn’t feature the Feeble-Dims in the running.
For goodness sake either furk orff back to Glasgow and yer Marxists mates or resign.
How long will Cable remain around the cabinet table,
Not long because he’s not too stable,
He makes it up as he goes along,
Some would call it a fable.
Exactly. This is his one chance to bag ten years of backbench salary and pension contributions for five years work.
No contest. If he resigns at all it will be a day before the next election. BBC will report Vince is a man of integrity that left with his dignity intact.
If you want to know the real truth about what’s going on read the Guardian. It’s full of err can’t quite think of the words.
Grandiloquent prolixity ?
yeh that’s em
Smellin mistakes?
Billy does lots of those, the Telegraph used to do lots of them
As I was sat on my toilet having a shit this morning, I suddenly realised there was no toilet roll left.
So I had to walk about with my pants around my ankles for about 20 minutes until I finally found some.
In Tesco, aisle 9.
Fancy putting the paper back on the shelves. Now that was disgusting!
Definitly not Billy no spelling mistakes
Expert on everything – Will Hutton isnt that the fellow who was boss of the Work Foundation which was insolvent with a 27 million pensions deficit. Previously works for the Guardian. Nuf said!!
Expert overload, destroy, destroy, exterminate.
Will Hutton a truly fantastic Economist in his own mind. Sorry that is being to generous he has not got a mind.
Vince is upset so the BBC is very angry.
If Ed had been the PM, would he have formed the Merkozyband?
No. The Merkozybandwagon.
LOL!
That’s gotta be a candidate for Comment of the Day,
Davey boy finally does something worthwhile and everyone’s upset! I don’t get it. An in/out referendum would have been better but telling the EU to shove it is not a bad start.
What time is Cameron’s statement this afternoon? Can’t wait to see Miliband flounder. Last week Labour said Cameron would go to Brussels and cave in to Merkozy. Cameron completely blindsided them with his veto and now they’re desperately trying to come up with a coherent position. Had he caved in, they’d be accusing him of weakness and failing to protect the British interest. Instead they now find themselves in the unexpected position of arguing he should have signed up to a new treaty. This should make for popcorn worthy fun. And with Tory backbenchers supporting Cameron, it’s going to be a very raucous afternoon.
Can look forward to Ned Balls making throat-slashing motions. Time for Cameron’s team to come up with some gag about ‘If I had your leadership and economic record I’d be cutting my throat too..’ kind of gag.
I wonder if Guido or Neo Guido have thought about doing a live chat for it?
Why can’t you give us a running commentary Billy? (Oh fuck, did I really say that)?
You may have difficulty hearing the answer with your head stuck up Neo’s bottom, dear.
Haha…….he wishes.
there’s room for two
3.30 pm live on BBC News Channel,BBC Parliament and Sky plus on line…..best to watch parliament then you won’t get the biased commentary from the assembled BBC hacks and anti-Conservative invitees
Will get up at 3.30pm should be good telly. Watch Clegg’s face.
The trick with “pushing the button” is to be positioned well outside the blast zone when you do the pressing.
Sadly for him this will not be possible so he will do bugger all…as normal.
Typical Lib Dem coward all the same talk big wave a white flag.
Blast zone? That presupposes that there is something explosive to go off. The way things are going it more likely to be like a sparrow breaking wind.
Jeez, we know who’s side the BBC is on ,I get the impression they have gone into a Euro campaign mode, I find it strange when 5 pies and two jags was called a deputy PM they joked it was a non job, but now this other tosser is Deputy PM they are taking the idiot very seriously, SELL the BBC now!
McShane spinning anti Cameron line on News 24, is that Hunt still suspended by Miliband or is he employed as a ‘Labour court jester?
Now why on earth would he do that? He must be a bent crook and a smarmy shit to boot.
He’s a fu*king crook and should serve time.
I wish the EU well.
Advice required from Neo-Guido. Do you think Cable needs to wear a tin foil hat?
Hahaha. Spanish newspaper runs piece about British folk not wanting to bail them out of their fiscal fuckwittery and we’re supposed to give a shit?
He really has no clue does he? What sort of morons elect this jackass?
jgm
Le Figaro a Spanish newspaper?
You must have been educated under the Blair/Brown regime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Figaro
Zut alors. Did I really say that?
Le Figaro est plus gauche que le Daily Worker.
To be rapidly followed by the ‘Frogs who detest Perfidious Albion’. Plus ca change.
Pieman Hughes on Sky ‘millions of UK jobs at stake’ how I would love to see him dangling on some lamp post.
Aye. The millions of UK jobs currently being done by Europ*eans. They’re the most at risk if we pull out.
There’s the door chaps.
Not jobs for the British but full bank accounts for the few.
I congratulate Little Mixth on winning the Xth Factor. I perthonally voted for Marcuth Collinth and I’m thure he’ll have a thplendid career.
Thought your fvourithe tune was ‘The Backstabbers’ ?
No it is still “The Red Flag” of that you can be certain.
Unlike yourself.
Shoulda been Frankie GooGootz. It woulda been if I had anything to say about it. All I’m saying, Frankie was a good yoot who deserved a second chance And he WILL get one, if I have anything to say about it.
We need you in New Jersey, Frankie. Our local douche bags are getting up my nose.
Blinking heck. i just did a google to see how much a cabinet minister earns which then lead to how much an MP earns and it turns out that very few MPs actually earn what an MP earns. There are so many extra allowances for doing an MP’s job that one would have to be very lazy or dead just to earn the basic pay.
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN05436.pdf
Some of them ARE dead or very lazy, haven’t you noticed? Still doesn’t stop them.
Easy on the language, extras, please.
The only reason Cameron used his veto was to save his leadership. He knew that if he signed up to a new treaty, his party would’ve removed him. An alternative theory is that he did it to intentionally cause the coalition to collapse so he can call a snap election.
Only two scenarios?
Or, as is most likely, he did the right thing for his country.
If he had done it for his country ,he would have been open an honest about it, he would have had his country on his side from the beginning, he didn’t it was to save himself.
Surely, even if he did it for the most venal personal reasons, he would present it as being done for the good of the country. Indeed I had thought that is exactly what he was trying to do. Is that message being in some way supressed? Going unreported on the BBC somehow?
Perhaps it is. I’ve not been following the Beeb too closely on this.
You cannot seriously be suggesting that Cameron isn’t spinning this as being done for the good of the UK?
Time will tell jgm2, if it was done honestly or to his advantage, last week on this blog we were slating him and calling him allsorts our opinions, this week we are praising him, being a cynical tosser I will hang on until those bstards in the EU have done all the deals and the smoke is cleared, I hope he has but I believe he hasn’t.
He obviously did it for the country – er, that’s what all that 3 line whip business was about a few weeks ago, isn’t it?
I think that’s a straightforward case of ‘who cares why he did it? He did it! Thank the Lord’
57% of folks from all walks of life and all political spectrums, polled over the weekend said they totally agreed with him. Only 14% said they disagreed. the rest agreed but seemed to worry there would be repercussions.
Here we go again prophet nell is right and the rest of us are all wrong for daring to have our own opinions.
Bless! Have you broken up from school early?
Amidst all the politico’s pontificating and all the mock angst and horror from the Liebour tw@ts across the whole spectrum of the media, one thing has been totally forgotten.
The vast majority of the Great British Public back Cameron’s decision.
Democracy means very little to some people, especially those of the left.
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BRUSSELS HAVE ANNOUNCED A NEW ENTITY WILL BE FORMED TO MONITOR GOVERNMENT SPENDING BY EUROZONE COUNTRIES. IT WILL BE KNOW AS THE FISCAL UNION of COMMON CURRENCY USERS OR FUCCU FOR SHORT.
you’ve been reading Dan the man. Good article, wasn’t it.
Is that Hunt-Brown still hiding in the bunker?
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/rbs.pdf
It’s a great day to bury bad news !!!
Peston pointed out that the taxpayers are sitting on top of a huge loss on bailing out RBS, and forgot to mention who sanctioned the bail out via nationalisation.
Meanwhile the Coalition is under strain and about to collapse, and that Hunt McShane is all over the BBC like a rash to criticise Call Me Dave.
I saved the World but somehow also destroyed the British economy !
British jobs for
East EuropeanBritish workers !Court Jetsetter McShane been sent out to bat, retardED is spraying his back with surgical spirit to lessen the pain from the weals he’ll get from the whipping he’ll get at Noon Wednesday!!!
Where’s Balls today?
Must have lost his voice.
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I got a bit carried away at the office Christmas party and started photocopying my arse.
After destroying all the copies when I sobered up I didn’t think the boss would find out, but apparently customers complain when they discover their invoices have skid marks.
The coalition now has its Clare Short.
Labour lost.
Get over it.
GHT the twat pontificating over McDoom on R4 was his batman arse-bandit, Nick Namesake!!
So self interest spectacularly wins the day. I am unsurprised!
poor old vince just couldn’t bear to give up his ministerial salary, expenses ,pension and chauffered car!!
he found it much easier to give up his principles (??)
1st Interview is already out with Little Mix;
Smash Hits asked the fat one:
“What’s your favourite meal?”
Fatty replied: “Seconds”
You can buy your own Little Mix outfit from Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/d5sm5dq
Now that would look good on Bercow (male) and Sarkosy (the one who wears the high heels).
I thought there were two fat short arsed ones in the group, especially the girl with the exceedingly big head, and the other two are short arsed rakes.
Don’t forget Susan Boyle came second to some act that no one has heard of since.
The difference between Susan Boyle and Gordon Brown: one of them is something of a simpleton from Scotland, and the other one is a singer.
they were called diversity they have now diversified into total obscurity thank fuck.
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Bild am Sonntag poll: 46% of respondents believe Germany would be better off out of EU with 45% believing the opposite http://bit.ly/uukcIA
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that arse bandit Hughes is on Sky telling me I am confused about my opinions on Europe. TWAT TWAT TWAT, why do you Liberal TWATS think you know better than the public who elected you?
TWAT
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President Klaus says Czech Republic should not contribute to IMF bail out http://bit.ly/tuT3e1
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This European Stability Mechanism Treaty has got to have been taken directly from ‘Animal Farm’. Orwell writes the script and the EU hams it up.
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/1216793/esm%20treaty%20en.pdf
And in today’s heavily played down news, there was an outbreak of diversity in Trafalgar Square over the weekend.
Only 139 arrests and some old honky carol singers attacked.
But at least the streets of London are safe now that Emma West is behind bars.
Little Mix – 48.3%
Marcus Collins – 42.8%
Amelia Lily – 8.9%
So Little Mix should form the next government. It would also appear that Amelia Lily will be more popular than the Liberal Democrats.
Some times nothin, can be a real Cool hand …. * Lucille*
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Vince is just hanging on until his lottery numbers come up. £134,565 is a lot to give up without an alternative.
Vince ‘loose’ Cable is a very very irritating man.